Noah Webster
Contemplation
CONTEMPLATION, noun [Latin]
1. The act of the mind in considering with attention; meditation; study; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject.
CONTEMPLATION is keeping the idea, brought into the mind, some time actually in view.
2. Holy meditation; attention to sacred things; a particular application of the foregoing definition.
To have in contemplation to intend or purpose, or to have under consideration.